Safety precautions urged at Lakewood schools

A security expert has recommended several major changes to better protect and monitor schools and students, including adding turnstiles, metal detectors, barrier gates and door alarms.
The proposed overhaul, while well received for its thoroughness, also prompted concerns from parents and educators that it was a possible overreaction by officials, especially because the costly endeavor comes when the school district is crippled with debt. The security analysis follows a melee involving 150 students and others at the high school Nov. 14.
"We're overmedicating the baby, per say," Rose Carlo, whose daughter is a high school senior, said at a Board of Education meeting Wednesday night. "We need to slow down and take a better look. We're sending a message that the kids might be of a criminal background."
This is money we don't need to be spending right now."
Following the presentation by Raymond McGill, a senior consultant with Care Security Systems, Glenn Bradford, PTA president at the Clark school, asked why the measures weren't being applied to the elementary schools.
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